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Ecologically Interesting Areas of the City of Mladá Boleslav: A Project for a Secondary Vocational School
Špicarová, Adéla ; Pavlasová, Lenka (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on exploring ecologically interesting areas in the town of Mladá Boleslav, integrating theoretical insights from curriculum documents and ecology education in schools with a projectbased approach. The theoretical part analyzes key concepts related to the project method and teaching, examines the projectsolving process, and explores the typology of projects. It further delves into curriculum documents, especially the Framework Educational Program and the School Educational Program, and outlines ecology education with a focus on the specific school context. The practical part meticulously analyzes the project "Ecologically Interesting Areas of Mladá Boleslav." It investigates the group of students, project goals, its integration into the school curriculum, and the development of key competencies. It addresses students' interactive approach to environmental protection and their direct contribution to the sustainability of the town. The discussion summarizes the results, addresses potential issues, and suggests future development possibilities for similar projects in the educational context. The overall aim of this work is to motivate students to actively engage in ecological issues in their surroundings and, simultaneously, to create material that raises wareness of environmental...
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Influence of Health Regimen on Immune System
Kotrč, Jan ; Ehler, Edvard (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the influence of lifestyle on the immune system and project-based teaching of the immune system in elementary school biology. The theoretical part is devoted to embedding elementary school biology and topics covering the curriculum of the immune system in curricular documents and literary research of the immune system and related topics with regard to life management and the definition of project teaching. The aim of the practical part was to design, implement and evaluate the project teaching of the immune system, intended for the 8th year of primary school. The teaching evaluation was carried out in two parallel classes of the 8th grade at a selected primary school with a sample of 41 pupils. The goal of the evaluation was to verify the knowledge about the immune system and to find out the subjective evaluation of the implemented teaching for pupils of two eighth grades at a selected elementary school with an interval of two weeks. The data was collected using a pretest and posttest and a questionnaire to determine the subjective evaluation of the project day by the pupils. The goal of the implemented project was to acquire knowledge of the immune system and connect it with the already acquired knowledge of practical principles of life management and the development...
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Vocational scicence education - chemistry education curriculum
Henková Mauleová, Lucie ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (referee)
HENKOVÁ MAULEOVÁ, Lucie. Přírodovědné vzdělávání na středních odborných školách - kurikulum chemického vzdělávání. Praha, 2023. Diploma thesis. Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry Education. Supervisor: Doc. RNDr. Svatava Janoušková, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis focuses on the recent set up of the chemical curriculum of selected upper-secondary school programs. The curriculum is compared from the viewpoint of content and other parameters with selected analogous foreign curricula, further, focus group research was conducted, orienting on desired objectives, content, and form of science education at vocational schools. Based on this analysis, a draft of the curriculum for a chosen model study program was constructed as the outcome. Key words vocational schools, curriculum, chemistry education
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Selected materials for teaching chemistry in lower grades at the eight-year grammar school
Wilhelm, Lukáš ; Šmejkal, Petr (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The incoherence of the Czech school system, which is based on the existence of three different types of grammar schools, results in a time inconsistency in the teaching of some subjects. Today, pupils at eight-year grammar schools encounter the subject of chemistry for the first time one to two years earlier than pupils at primary schools. However, the same textbook may be presented to both groups, but it may be inappropriate for younger pupils as it would not reflect the fact that they are not cognitively advanced enough. How do eight-year grammar schools themselves approach this disparity? Does the approach to teaching chemistry to younger pupils differ in foreign countries in any way? These are the questions this thesis seeks to answer. To find the answers, an analysis of Czech and selected foreign curriculum documents was used. The most important results of this thesis include the fact that eight-year grammar schools in the Czech Republic most often include a total of seven teaching units during the first year of chemistry teaching, of which the most abstract concepts are included in the teaching unit Particle composition of substances. In foreign countries, the teaching of chemistry to younger pupils does not go as in-depth as in our eight-year grammar schools, but comparable topics are...
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Media education in chemistry teaching
Matějčková, Veronika ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
This thesis deals with the integration of media education into chemistry teaching. The thesis is divided in two parts. The first part develops media education as a tool to obtain media literacy, didactics approach in teaching of media education and methods used in those teachings. Undisputable part of the first part of this thesis is the position of media education in curricular documents in the Czech Republic and investigation of a real state of media education teachings at Czech primary and secondary schools. The results of the investigation showed that the skill of media literacy of students in the Czech Republic is rather below average. The investigation also showed that the most common form of implementation of media education teaching is integration into other educational areas. Second part of the thesis contains a questionnaire among teachers of science subjects focused on integration of media education and educational materials which were prepared after evaluation of first part of the thesis, and which are a practical demonstration of a relationship between media education and chemistry subject. The created teaching materials contain theoretical starting points for the given topic of media education, methodological instructions for teachers and worksheets, teaching presentations or other...
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Practical science teaching during distance eduaction - analysis of interviews with chemistry teachers
Konfrštová, Adéla ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the state of teaching practical chemistry activities in schools during distance learning in time of the SARS-COV-2 virus pandemic. The research, based on a questionnaire from the project HomeLab, was extended by a qualitative analysis of interviews with nine chemistry teachers. The research questions were looking for answers whether chemistry teachers implemented chemical experiments into their lessons during distance learning, what was their motivation or barriers to implement practical chemistry education. The thematic analysis of the interviews revealed that all nine teachers but one implemented chemistry activities, mostly including experiments with household tools, resources or food. The motivation was most often the fact that experiments belong to chemistry and without them the teaching of chemistry would not be so attractive. On the contrary, the interviews revealed the need for teachers to share their teaching experiences, but also to know the databases that offer didactic materials that can be used for practical teaching of natural sciences. Keywords chemistry experiments, distance education, interviews, qualitative analysis, thematic analysis
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Microplastics in General Secondary Chemistry Education
Marešová, Eva ; Bílek, Martin (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on microplastics as a frequently discussed topic in the context of environmental hazards, which despite its topicality and popularity is not included in the teaching of Chemistry as a general educational subject. The theoretical part focuses on the size classification, origin, composition, appearance, sources, and the occurrence of microplastics, including their impact on the environment. The first practical part consists of an analysis of the Framework Educational Programme for Elementary education, the Framework Education Programme for Grammar Schools, and selected Schools Educational Programmes with a main focus on microplastics. The second practical part is devoted to the design of learning activities through which pupils are able to actively learn about the topic of microplastics in the context of teaching Chemistry as a general education subject. This active form of familiarisation with the topic should aim at increasing the pupils' interest in learning about this topic and contribute to the awareness of the possible risks involved at the same time. KEYWORDS Microplastics, general chemistry at lower secondary and grammar schools, environmental education
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Formative assessment in the chemistry education
Babinčáková, Mária ; Ganajová, Mária (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee) ; Szarka, Katarína (referee)
In Slovakia, no systemic steps have yet been taken regarding the implementation of formative assessment in teaching. Promoting formative assessment in practice is not easy and its implementation requires a system support, such as educational materials, digital collections of formative assessment tools, methodological materials, onsite and online teacher education, etc. In the presented thesis, we dealt with many of these areas - we created and optimized a collection of formative assessment tools for students and teachers for thematic units Mixtures, Water and Air for K7. Similarly, we trained teachers to implement formative assessment tools into their lessons. The effectiveness of this teaching was observed in terms of developing conceptual understanding. Moreover, verifying students' and teachers' attitudes towards formative assessment was studied. The analysis of results showed that formative assessment provides feedback to all participants. Formative assessment helps to improve students' outcomes, even at higher- order cognitive skills area. At the same time, it provides the teacher with feedback for the adaptation of the next lesson, also considering the student's opinion. Through the implementation of formative assessment in teaching, teachers perceive the importance of students'...
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Alternative pedagogical trends in chemistry education in Czech Republic
Dalíková, Martina ; Čtrnáctová, Hana (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The bachelor's dissertation named Alternative pedagogical way in education of chemistry aims to give an overview on alternative schools widespread in the Czech Republic. The work deals with a description and characteristics of chosen types of alternative schools and their methods which are used in education. The aim of the thesis itself is to provide an overall survey of the existing alternative methods of education and show their use in education of chemistry.
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Indicators of LSD: Proposal for a Model and Set of Literacy Indicators for Adult Public Sustainable Development in the Czech Republic
Končinská, Alice ; Třebický, Viktor (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
At present, a trend is emerging that shows the increasing application of Education for Sustainable Development in the Czech Republic. This type of education is arriving in various strategic documents and is featuring in pedagogic and andragogical practices. There is a range of indicators, mainly originating from abroad, for the assessment of this type of education and the task ahead for the Czech Republic is to adjust these indicators for the Czech environment, or create its own ones. This thesis deals with result indicators, that is to say indicators of the impact of Education for Sustainable Development on the literacy of the adult public on the local, microregional and regional levels. The thesis analyses selected national and international strategic documents as well as Czech and foreign specialised literature from the perspective of environmental education, bringing-up and further education concepts and Education for Sustainable Development. It then analyses these concepts from the perspective of educational qualities that Literacy for Sustainable Development consists of. Subsequently, it evaluates the identified qualities in an expert way in accordance with the definition of Literacy for Sustainable Development and it sets a coherent Adult Public Literacy Model for Sustainable Development....
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